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 brought to their trial before the High-Court of Jutice, He appeared warmly in their favour againt the juridiction of that Court; at the ame time he was informed of ome violence threatened againt his peron, in a council of war at Whitehall, about the 22d of February, whereupon he engaged in drawing up his piece called England’s new Chains dicovered, and on the 26th of that month accompanied by Walwyn, Prince, and Overton, he preented an Addres to the Supreme Authority of England in the Houe of Commons, containing a frame of new modelling the tate, in oppoition to that which had been offered there by the army in January preceding , and being ordered to withdraw without receiving an anwer, our author publihed the whole under the lat mentioned title, upon which he was committed with his aociates to the Tower, March the 29th, 1649. He had not been there long before he joined with them in writing another pamphlet, intitled, The Agreement of the People, which was publihed on the firt of May, with a licence by Gilbert Mabbot. This being followed with eve-